Me and kardboardking share some memories in FightCade chat . The excerpt:

FightCade Chat wrote:<Souji> but there were some made by god 2.0 if you know him<kardboardking> oh yeah is he still alive?<Souji> he should. dont know where tho...<kardboardking> the only reason i ever found out about this is because of ggpo, which is because of 2df, which is because a guy on kaillera told me<Souji> i can see<kardboardking> if i never tried kaillera, i would never know about this place<Souji> i heard of it from heavenly spirits . net<Souji> kailera, then mame<Souji> and then 2df came it was like wow compared to the other ones<kardboardking> yeah now THOSE were bad connections<Souji> i see your point<kardboardking> no smoothing, everything all jumpy/shaky<kardboardking> we still playedf<Souji> i still remember my first time i discovered ss could be played online<kardboardking> i dont even remember how i got on kaillera<Souji> i saw songpengs posters on hs.net<kardboardking> yeah we been around a while<Souji> and i was amazed that this community exists<Souji> then i entered kailer with 0% skill<kardboardking> you remember cain?<Souji> caine<Souji> from turkey?<kardboardking> that guy was bro yea<Souji> yeah we played alot back in kailera or mame<Souji> we were training together<Souji> since we were all the time pretty much online<kardboardking> yep and everyone had msn or aim<Souji> my first play online was vs a haohmaru<Souji> i dont recon his name<Souji> but i remember he beat me w/o his sword<Souji> and the score was 0 for 38 for him<kardboardking> he put it down?<Souji> and then i was wow look at this gameplay<Souji> yeah i was total noob<Souji> and got stomped<kardboardking> haoh is one of the lag lords though<kardboardking> ronin liked him<Souji> oh yeah ronin also <kardboardking> king of lag<Souji> yeah i trained with mike since he was good<kardboardking> KO me from the old tournament<Souji> with ronin we had decent matches, mostly same chars<Souji> but i was totally raging when his spamming AB hit <Souji> also p100q<Souji> was an intersting guy<Souji> and loved his gameplay, very inspiring<kardboardking> i always pictured him as shizumaru<Souji> yeah <kardboardking> not sure why<Souji> cus he had the avatar<Souji> with shizumaru<kardboardking> he never talked to people much<Souji> and he was the only one playing him high skiled back then<Souji> i tried to contact him but in vain<kardboardking> one time he spammed genjuro for an entire long match<Souji> yeah he had good genj<Souji> kyo and single ukyo online<kardboardking> he would lock onto one guy for the whole time<Souji> witch is for admire<kardboardking> the opposite was nog who was the first guy to start using random<Souji> then you showed up<Souji> oh yeah nog also man good memories<Souji> pretty strong foe<Souji> yeah and you showed upw<Souji> with good skill<Souji> all of a sunden<kardboardking> i used to play only certain people like mike i met pretty early<Souji> pokets, mauve were here also<Souji> usa<Souji> the connection was bad<Souji> now its decent<kardboardking> i couldnt go back nowTHE END

Lol this kind of conversation makes all the events, as well as conversation participants, to look ancient pretty much. About contacting the old users, wasn't there a thread with ICQ/MSN contacts of users at Heavenly Spirits?

This is merely a combination of Skype lagging my PC enough to abanon it's use + me rarely visiting the forum since new samsho games lately all were pachinko . I stopped using MSN as well but I still do use ICQ.